My weather karma seems to have gone the wrong way. During the summer, when it was pouring with rain and nobody was flying due to the weather, I didn’t have a single cancellation. Now the winter’s arrived, which I was told often produces some wonderfully clear (albeit cold) days, I’ve had such a [...]
Why do I need to tell each and every web service who my friends are? Why can’t last.fm, flickr and twitter just get this information from Facebook? Likewise, why I do have to tell them all where I live, how old I am, what my website is, etc.?
Yesterday’s celebratory blog post demonstrated that Upstart is now able to supervise processes that fork into the background, as most daemons do. Now that the code has undergone a little more testing, and been pushed into the archive, it’s worth explaining a little bit more of the background as to the how, and why, [...]
quest /tmp# cat test.c
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
main (int argc,
char *argv[])
{
pid_t pid;
pid = fork ();
if (pid > 0)
[...]
